Literature is the immortality of speech.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

Literature is the immortality of speech

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or a virtue

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.